Minecraft Server

Setup

Prerequisites

• Download Ansible, Pulumi, RClone, Poetry and Azure CLI
• Run az login to login to your Microsoft account for Pulumi
• Create a remote for storing backups by running - rclone --config ./rclone.config config and follow the instructions shown.
• Create a .env file using .env-example as a template
• Download backups from OneDrive if they exist (only the needed .tgz file)
• Run pulumi config set azure-native:location <desired_location>
• Install all Ansible roles with ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Local setup

• Copy the preferred backup .tgz file to backups/ directory
• Run poetry install in iac/pulumi directory
• Run pulumi -C iac/pulumi up -y
• Copy the IP address returned by pulumi to ansible_host key in the cloudgroup group in iac/ansible/hosts.yml
• Run ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass -i iac/ansible/hosts.yml iac/ansible/playbooks/main.yml
• Access the server at <ip_address>:25565

Shutdown & Cleanup

• Run pulumi -C iac/pulumi down -y

Configuration

Server config

• To change server name/VM/location/image..., edit iac/pulumi/Pulumi.dev.yaml
• To edit Ansible host config, edit iac/ansible/hosts.yaml

Minecraft config

• To change Minecraft server settings/commands on startup..., edit the environment section in the mcserver service in docker-compose.yml

Credit

• itzg Docker Minecraft server
• itzg Docker Minecraft backup server